Commit 617052d6 authored by Rémi Denis-Courmont's avatar Rémi Denis-Courmont

- exit() cannot return negative (or large) values

- waitpid() can fail
parent 7ce5b93a
......@@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ static void Execute( intf_thread_t *p_this, const char *const *ppsz_args )
{
case 0: /* we're the child */
/* We don't want output */
fclose( stdout );
fclose( stderr );
freopen( "/dev/null", "w", stdout );
freopen( "/dev/null", "w" stderr );
execv( ppsz_args[0] , (char *const *)ppsz_args );
/* If the file we want to execute doesn't exist we exit() */
exit( -1 );
exit( 1 );
break;
case -1: /* we're the error */
msg_Dbg( p_this, "Couldn't fork() while launching %s",
......@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static void Execute( intf_thread_t *p_this, const char *const *ppsz_args )
default: /* we're the parent */
/* Wait for the child to exit.
* We will not deadlock because we ran "/bin/sh &" */
waitpid( pid, NULL, 0 );
while( waitpid( pid, NULL, 0 ) != pid);
break;
}
}
......
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